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diff etc/PROBLEMS @ 40618:04c9ddfb2b2a
Document problems with dumping on an NFS-mounted filesystem.
author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 01 Nov 2001 14:07:22 +0000 |
parents | 12c60dbbc4fe |
children | 83db614759e5 |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Thu Nov 01 13:35:34 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Thu Nov 01 14:07:22 2001 +0000 @@ -372,6 +372,17 @@ The solution is to remove this line from `etc/fstab'. +* Emacs binary is not in executable format, and cannot be run. + +This was reported to happen when Emacs is built in a directory mounted +via NFS. Usually, the file `emacs' produced in these cases is full of +binary null characters, and the `file' utility says: + + emacs: ASCII text, with no line terminators + +We don't know what exactly causes this failure. A work-around is to +build Emacs in a directory on a local disk. + * Accented ISO-8859-1 characters are displayed as | or _. Try other font set sizes (S-mouse-1). If the problem persists with